Category: Sports

(ABC-Australia) US Olympic officials are appealing a court ruling that resulted in American gymnast Jordan Chiles being asked to return the bronze medal she won in the Paris Olympics floor exercise. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) voided an on-floor appeal by Chiles’s coach that vaulted her to third, saying the appeal came 4 seconds beyond […]

PARIS, 12 AUGUST 2024 (AP) — The Olympics will always have Paris. Next up for the Summer Games: Los Angeles 2028. The baton was handed from one third-time Olympic host city to another at the closing ceremony Sunday in Paris, and much will be different in four years’ time. New sports will make their Olympic […]

India’s Vinesh Phogat disqualified before gold medal clash, tempers flare as cameraman crashes 5,000m heats and Sweden’s crafty volleyball move (ABC-Australia) Nina Kennedy stole the show at the Paris Olympics on day 12, becoming the first Australian woman to win a gold medal in an Olympic field event as she took out the women’s pole […]

Team Palau Olympians debut in their first Olympics in Paris. Brother and sister, Jion and Yuri Hosei marked a first for Palau, siblings who both qualified for the Olympics. Another special first, a daughter of a former Palauan Olympian, named after the Sydney Olympics, also debuted in her first Olympic in Paris, Sydney Francisco. Not […]

By Simon Smale at the Stade de France (ABC-Australia) Time is a funny thing. Sometimes it can feel like you have too much of it.  We all know the feeling. Wasted, lethargic hours waiting for that one moment, that one thing you’ve been looking forward to for an age. Or perhaps there’s not enough time. Suddenly that […]

HAGATNA (BENAR NEWS) — Planned missile tests in Guam are dividing residents as an unprecedented military build-up in the U.S territory continues in response to geo-political tensions in the Pacific.  Residents have been given until Friday to voice their concerns about the environmental impacts of the launches due to begin by the end of the […]